The lonely mountain with flowers and birds singing has an additional layer of secluded paths and an isolated artistic conception compared to the imperial city at the foot of Phoenix Mountain.

In recent years, Gushan has been repaired and expanded by Emperor Zhao Xing from time to time, and coupled with the set of West Lake, it has become more extraordinary and continues to develop in a direction like a fairyland.

Various pavilions and pavilions can be seen everywhere in Gushan, but they can be appropriately combined with the terrain of Gushan and other factors, which makes Gushan today more mysterious and extraordinary after losing a trace of royal majesty.

The path of the secluded path is perfectly combined with the mountains. In the afternoon sun, the old Zhao Xing is already covered with silver hair. With the service of Guan Li and a few eunuchs and palace maids, she sat down in the corridor again.

In the past two years, this has become a habit that Zhao Xing cannot beat. Even when the sky is drizzling, Zhao Xing will come here to sit for a while.

From this corridor, you can not only bring most of the beautiful scenery of the lonely mountain into your eyes, but also turn the sparkling scenery of West Lake into the scenery in your eyes.

Zhao Xing, who looked pretty good, silently swept across all the scenery in front of him, and then his eyes were frozen on the West Lake, making the dull eyes brighter because of the West Lake in the distance.

"Duke Rong Guo has sent a letter in the past few days?" Zhao Xing asked quietly.

Over the years, Guan Li, who has been serving by the side, replied softly that he did not.

At the same time, at the gate of Gushan, the current court's right prime minister is now at the gate of Gushan, Bi Zaihui of the Dali Temple, and Qian Xiangzu, the Minister of War, slowly walked along the stone steps to the corridor where Zhao Sheng was located.

On weekdays, whether it is Liu Zheng, Bi Qing, or Qian Xiangzu, it is difficult to come to Gushan once. Now that the New Year is approaching, they can naturally come to Gushan with justification and visit Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Xing's eyes slowly shifted from the West Lake to Liu Zheng and the other two. Mu Qi's deep eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness. Although Zhao Ruyu died in Dali Temple, the real murderer, and in front of him, was Ye Qing.

This incident was like a thorn in Zhao Xing's heart, stinging Zhao Xing's nerves and face all the time. A royal family died easily in Ye Qing's hands. This was completely unacceptable for Zhao Xing, who had stopped Ye Qing before Zhao Ruyu's death.

Although when Ye Qing was still in Chang'an, Zhao Xing had to make a compromise and acknowledged that Zhao Ruyu was executed by Ye Qing, it was precisely because of this that he decided to remove Ye Qing, who was becoming more and more powerful for the court.

At the Yan Family Garden in West Lake, just the night before Zhao Ruyu was poisoned, Zhao Ling also patted 74 good men to assassinate Ye Qing, but the final result was that Ye Qing was still alive on the second day, and his move accelerated Zhao Ruyu's poisoning to Ye Qing.

The past scenes emerged in Zhao Xing's mind, and sometimes even Zhao Xing didn't know how Ye Qing got to this day, and was in an unattainable high position in the Northland.

As he thought about Ye Qing's rise over and over again, Zhao Xing's heart always felt helpless. The northern territory was recovered by Ye Qing one after another. This temptation was obviously an important reason why the royal family made it difficult for him to make up his mind to get rid of Ye Qing.

And it is precisely because of this that Zhao Xing would regret it from time to time. When Emperor Gaozong wanted to kill Ye Qing in Dali Temple, he actually secretly protected Ye Qing at that time. Now it seems that this is definitely the most wrong thing for him, Zhao Xing.

Emperor Gaozong of the past obviously had seen the situation he could not see at that time and Ye Qing's wolfish ambitions. That was why he wanted to get rid of Ye Qing in one fell swoop before he died. At that time, Zhao Xing had to secretly protect Ye Qing because of the court situation, so that Ye Qing could use it for him.

After all, regaining lost territories and going north to attack Jin was always his ambition. At that time, no one in the court except Han Tuozhou could take on the task of this northern expedition.

The threats from Han Cheng and Han Tuozhou and his son to the court were obviously more afraid of Zhao Xing than Ye Qing at that time. Therefore, under the current situation, Zhao Xing could value it, and only Ye Qing was the only one who gave him trust.

"The times create heroes, and heroes emerge in troubled times." Zhao Xing, who looked at Liu Zheng, who was standing in front of him, was standing in front of him, and said with a smile.

Liu Zheng and the other two looked at each other in a little, for some reason, the Supreme Emperor suddenly said this.

"Give it a seat." Zhao Xing glanced at Guan Li, and then Guan Li signaled that the eunuchs and palace maids who had been serving beside him to retreat. After his eyes were ignored, he slowly retreated from the corridor pavilion.

Bi Zaiyu's eyes looked at Guan Li, who had left the corridor pavilion in the air, and then the two quickly moved their eyes toward each other again.

"How do the Ministry of War thinks of Ye Qing... arbitrary in the north?" Zhao Ling spoke and asked Qian Xiangzu directly.

Among the three, Liu Zheng's loyalty is not to doubt. Moreover, when he was blocking Ye Qing from Guanshan to return to Song, Liu Zheng secretly negotiated with the Jin people, which made the Jin people agree to surround Ye Qing in Guanshan. Although it failed in the end, this matter had nothing to do with Liu Zheng.

On the contrary, the grudge between Liu Zheng and Ye Qing is still quite deep, but Zhao Xing has always been very curious. Ye Qing returned to Lin'an after the Guanshan battle. He had the opportunity to retaliate against Liu Zheng, but in the end, he not only did not retaliate, but even did not even object to the order to block Liu Zheng as the right prime minister.

This is obviously completely different from Ye Qing's attitude towards other political enemies, such as Zhao Ruyu. Ye Qing's mansion was very profound and his methods were ruthless. In theory, even Zhao Ruyu dared to take revenge, but why did he not attack Liu Zheng and instead let him sit in the high position of right prime minister? Zhao Ling has always been puzzled about this.

But no matter what, Liu Zheng's loyalty to the court to the royal family is beyond doubt, and he is even no less than Qian, who has always had a very close relationship with the Zhao Song royal family.

Qian Xiangzu, the Minister of War, was the only Qian family's son who had been able to rank high in the court of the Zhao Song royal family in recent years. In addition, since the founding of the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Qian family has been a loyal party of the Zhao Song royal family, so Zhao Xing also believed in the loyalty of the Qian family to the Song court.

Bi Zaihui came from a military family and then entered the officialdom. Although he has never been as prominent as others in recent years, he has either a prominent status or a prominent family background, but now he is able to hold the position of Dali Temple Minister, which shows that Bi Zaihui's ability is enough to take on great responsibilities.

The reason why Bi Zaizhi came to Gushan was also not doubtful that Bi Zaizhi was loyal to the court was entirely because Zhao Ruyu died in Dali Temple at that time. Now he valued Bi Zaizhi because he hoped that one day in the future, Bi Zaizhi could impeach Ye Qing and poison the royal family.

"Ye Qing served as Privy Council Privy Council Privy Council Privy Council for more than a year. Since then, the soldiers and horses in the north have no longer been controlled by the court. Even if they have some control, they are mostly nominal. Ye Qing has the final say in the appointment and removal of soldiers at all levels in the north." Qian Xiangzu answered respectfully, and glanced at Zhao Xing who was as calm as water, and then continued: "Now the Privy Council has been abolished. Although the Ministry of War has regained the power of the soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty, when Ye Qing was appointed as Privy Councilor, he had already revised the law for the dispatch of soldiers and horses in the north. Although the Ministry of War had thought of taking back the power of appointment and removal,... Ye Qing lived in the north and had always given ministers and others the opportunity to hand over the wars in the north and made it difficult for them to correct the situation."

"Does the Master have no objection to this?" Zhao Xing knew that it was useless to ask, but he still had a trace of expectation in his heart.

Qian Xiangzu and Ye Qing were both from the Prince's Mansion back then. Now that the prince has become the emperor, Qian Xiangzu has been appointed as the Minister of War. Therefore, now, the northern part and the Ministry of War can be said to be in the position of the emperor. In name, it is also considered that the power of the military and horses are in the hands of the emperor.

But now Ye Qing is becoming increasingly powerful in the north, and even has the tendency to be uncontrolled by the court. Especially with the battle of Guanshan and the invitation of King Qing and Duke Chong to Chang'an by Ye Qing, the situation in the court has become more and more complicated, and Ye Qing's thoughts in the north have become obvious.

So at this time, the emperor should have been worried about Ye Qing's various actions in the north, but unfortunately, the emperor still didn't realize it at all, and even continued to let Ye Qing gallop in the north and grow stronger.

Zhao Xing wanted to remind the current emperor Ye Qing of the threat to the court in the north, but because of the abdication, the relationship between father and son was stiff, and the queen's obstruction made him forced him to cultivate himself in Gushan and not ask about state affairs.

"Now the war in the north has stopped. Shangshu Qian, now it may be a good opportunity to communicate and hand over with the north. What do you think?" Zhao Xing said to Liu Zheng and Qian Xiangzu, but his eyes were looking at Bi Zaiyu and asked.

"Return to the Supreme Emperor, I think if the Ministry of War wants to control the military power in the north, I am afraid that Ye Qing will need to return to Lin'an now. If Ye Qing has been in Chang'an City, the court will... I am afraid that there will be no way to deal with him for a while." Liu Zheng said, leaving a lot of face for Zhao Sheng and the court.

After all, when the Northern Expedition was launched, Wang Huai, who was still the left prime minister, also noticed the signs that Ye Qing was gradually uncontrolled in the north, so he appealed to Zhao Sheng, who had not yet abdicated at that time, several times, but fourteen imperial edicts to summon Ye Qing back to Lin'an were ignored by Ye Qing.

Now, Ye Qing's power in the north is much stronger than that before. If the court could not show full sincerity, he might want Ye Qing to return to Lin'an... it was like ascending to the sky.

"Sometimes ago, Yanzhou's front line was in a tight spot. Ye Qing wanted the court to send troops to help. Can the Ministry of War take action?" Zhao Xing's eyes darkened slightly as Liu Zheng said, and then he quietly shifted the topic to what he had done recently.

Zhao Xing was naturally aware of the pity in Liu Zheng's tone. At that time, he had no psychological politics because of Emperor Gaozong's death, and everything else was left to Wang Huai for management, so he missed the best opportunity to get rid of Ye Qing again.

In addition, when Ye Qing returned to Lin'an, the court was panicked because of the open and secret struggle between Han Cheng and Wang Huai, and the abdication between him and Zhao Sheng and the crown prince, which made no one care about Ye Qing, which made him escape again.

Ye Qing, who returned to Lin'an at that time, stood firmly on his side because the prince forced him to abdicate, which made the indecisive Zhao Xing once again deceive the situation.
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